A public wake will be held for singer-songwriter Glen Hansard in Dublin later ahead of his funeral tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The Oscar winner died on Wednesday at the age of 56 in a road crash, hours after taking part in a trad session at The Wren’s Nest pub.<\/p>\n
His body will lie in repose at the Baroque Chapel at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, from 11am until 4pm.<\/p>\n
The funeral will take place at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin city centre at 1.30pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Watch: Glen Hansard’s final performance hours before death<\/p>\n
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While the funeral will also be open to the public, access inside the cathedral will be limited given the numbers expected.<\/p>\n
Music at the funeral will be provided by Hansard’s friends and family.<\/p>\n
Born in Ballymun, Dublin, on 21 April 1970, Hansard began performing music at a young age, busking on the streets of Dublin before co-founding The Frames in 1990.<\/p>\n
Hansard also appeared in Alan Parker’s 1991 film The Commitments, playing guitarist Outspan Foster.<\/p>\n
Mr Hansard and Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1 won the Oscar for Best Original Song for Falling Slowly in 2008.<\/p>\n
The funeral will also be broadcast on the RT\u00c9 News channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A public wake will be held for singer-songwriter Glen Hansard in Dublin later ahead of his funeral tomorrow.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-581418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}